Your aim (reward or punishment) is before you. Behind your back is the hour (of resurrection) which is driving you on. Keep (yourself) light and overtake (the forward ones). Your last ones are being awaited by the first ones (who have proceeded).
Nahj al-Balāgha #774Hasten towards the most common matter which is peculiar to every one; and that is death. Certainly, people (who have already gone) are ahead...